Characteristics

Through many generations, the descendants of Beorn were like him skin-changers, able to take the shape of a bear.[2] Since it is unknown if all Beornings came from the line of Beorn, one can only guess if this was valid for all the Beornings.

The Beornings seemed to have shared a dislike for Dwarves,[3][13] perhaps related to the latters' praise of metals and the formers' disinterest in it.[14]

They were known as great bakers, famous for their honey-cakes (which could feed travellers similarly to the lembas).[15]

↑J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, "Queer Lodgings": "[The Dwarves] spoke most of gold and silver and jewels and the making of things by smith-craft, and Beorn did not appear to care for such things: there were no things of gold or silver in his hall, and few save the knives were made of metal at all.